Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. "
Stephen Covey
Key
Schedule
Priorities
Related Quotes:
" There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations. "
Stephen Covey
Strong
Pressure
Expectations
" Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger. "
Stephen Covey
Abundance
Happy
Others
" What is common sense isn't common practice. "
Stephen Covey
Common Sense
Practice
Sense
" We become what we repeatedly do. "
Stephen Covey
Become
Repeatedly
" But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital! "
Stephen Covey
Society
School
Last
" Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for. "
Stephen Covey
People
Technology
Innovation
" Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family. "
Stephen Covey
Role
School
Family
" Seek first to understand, then to be understood. "
Stephen Covey
Seek
Understood
First
" It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize. "
Stephen Covey
Strength
Heart
Character
" Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism. "
Stephen Covey
See
I See
Cultures
" When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are. "
Stephen Covey
Value
Truth
Principles
" If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm. "
Stephen Covey
Life
Changes
Attitude
" It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field. "
Stephen Covey
People
Technology
Find
" Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way. "
Stephen Covey
Better
Way
Than
" Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them. "
Stephen Covey
Fantasy
Goals
Plan
" Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking. "
Stephen Covey
Social
Thinking
Some
" Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships. "
Stephen Covey
Trust
Communication
Life
" The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country. "
Stephen Covey
America
Responsibility
Community
" If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions. "
Stephen Covey
Purpose
Mission
Family
" The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too. "
Stephen Covey
Feel
Culture
Cheating
" Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. "
Stephen Covey
Management
Leadership
Ladder
" We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals. "
Stephen Covey
Life
Decisions
Learning
" Most negotiators are trying to get their way. "
Stephen Covey
Get
Most
Trying
" Trust is central to an economy that works. "
Stephen Covey
Economy
Central
Works
" When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust. "
Stephen Covey
Look
Winner
Success
" Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior. "
Stephen Covey
Behavior
People
Environment
" An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success. "
Stephen Covey
Opportunity
Succeed
Success
" You can't talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into. "
Stephen Covey
Yourself
You
Problems
" Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity. "
Stephen Covey
Challenges
Just
Adversity
" One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people. "
Stephen Covey
Admired
Things
People